Biographie de CANINI Sylviane

“She prints traces of the body, translates the emotion of a movement, praises the fragility of her subject. Sylviane Canini is rooted in a classicism whose erudition and elegance is inherently appealing. In her work, the drawing prays. An unfinished drawing, in suspension. A desire that is yet to arrive. Her figures seem to be born under our gaze, similar to when we discover a fresco that is barely lit. “I like to hint at things," she says. “It allows people to dream and makes the figures universal”. Dreams that are accentuated by natural colours of the earth, colours which, with the modesty of their tones, conceal a certain sensual delight. For this she “uses the transparency of the paper, the inks and the stroke”. French but born to a Romanian father, at 19 she decided to study fine art in Bucharest. She was seduced straight away by printing and was introduced to etching and aquatint. She brought steel out of itself, liberated its features. Back in France, she was to cultivate her technique and find her own style. A style which draws on the very source of art: encounters between contemporary reality and the memory of time.”